Tag archives: Shogun

The Fred Toye Shogunate
By Jeff Wing   |   January 27, 2026

Meeting one’s hero can be perilous. On paper, anyway. “I wrote him a letter,” Fred Toye explains. Let’s call Fred’s outreach a Message in a Bottle. The earnest missive was written, after all, to Robert Wise – storied Hollywood director of The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Sand Pebbles, The Day the Earth […]

Congratulations Frederick!
By Richard Mineards   |   February 25, 2025

My congratulations to Montecito film director Frederick Toye, 57, who has just received two of the movie industry’s highest awards at the 77th annual Directors Guild of America Awards at the Beverly Hilton. Frederick, whose mother is screenwriter (and MJ contributor) Sigrid Toye, received the Outstanding Directorial Achievements in a Dramatic Series Award and an […]